In honor of Andrew Breitbart, I will be dedicating tomorrow’s episode of the #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio to his memory. One of the things that Andrew liked to do on Twitter was post song titles or YouTube links, and I will be playing songs that he liked or would like. This is tomorrow at 4 PM Eastern.

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Many people have a problem with the Second Amendment to the Constitution which reads as follows:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Many take that to mean that ONLY the military and police officers should have guns, but that is far from the truth. The reason for a militia is to protect the citizenship from the government. And the militia is not the military or the police officers. Rather, it is normal citizens. After all, when the British tried to take the weapons from the Patriots in 1773 the Patriots fought back and then on July 2, 1776, declared themselves free and independent from Britain.

The gun control battle came up with Fast & Furious under the Obama Administration (which Katie Pavlich wrote about in depth in her wonderful book Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up) and also with Operation Wide Receiver under the George W. Bush Administration (of which they are both TOTALLY different in that one did not lead into the other) then came full bore with the shooting in Tucson (Arizona) in 2011 where Former Congresswoman Gabriella Giffords (Democrat from Arizona’s 8th District) was shot. Then came Aurora (Colorado) and Newtown (Connecticut) in 2012, where mentally ill people decided to pick up a gun and just commit unspeakable horrors. After the Newtown tragedy, many politicians (all on the Democrat side) called for stricter gun laws and gun control. I am against it for the simple reason that if you look at history, the dictators of the world (Hitler in Germany, Stalin in Russia, Mao in China, and Pol Pot in Cambodia) had first come to power with talk of gun control. Then when only the military and police had guns, the dictators decided to unleash holy hell on their respective countries. Many try to make reasonable arguments for no gun control and support for the second Amendment, but one such comment only took 30 seconds, and said so much more than many of the politicians and pro-Second Amendment supporters could in 30 hours. Take a listen to my good friend Kira Davis:

Kira Davis (@KiraAynDavis) and the Second Amendment

Kira is a GREAT American (f/t to Sean Hannity for that phrase) and a wonderful Conservative woman who I am proud to call friend. She says many things in 30 seconds (as the above video) or in 5 minutes than any politician or pundit can speak in 5 hours. Definitely give her a follow (she is @KiraAynDavis on Twitter) and also subscribe to her YouTube Channel for more wisdom.

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The project that I had in mind is slowly coming into play, and as George “Hannibal” Smith of the hit 1980’s TV show always says at the end of an episode, “I love it when a plan comes together.” The plan in this case being my own website and domain name. The address is http://www.rickbulow.com and the blog (entitled “Rick’s Crazed World” because it will be a hodgepodge of different categories and items from my crazed mind) is at http://www.rickbulow.com/blog. Also, I will be having a message board at http://www.rickbulow.com/MessageBoard/index.php for anyone to leave me messages and where I will also have a few educational items. The blog will be open tomorrow just in time for me to live blog the Super Bowl between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaking of the Super Bowl, my pick for the Super Bowl is that the Broncos win 49-21 with either Peyton Manning, Wes Welker, or Eric Decker getting the MVP. What you will see most during the Super Bowl is The Sherman Tank (aka Seattle Cornerback Richard Sherman) getting Deckered by the Manning Bomb.

And that is all the news that is news for today. Not only will I be live blogging the Super Bowl tomorrow, but I will also be live tweeting it as well as there will be no #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio tomorrow for now. Stay tuned to my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) for more information. And if you like what you read, please help out a capitalist and hit the tip jar.

Just in case you missed the #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio this past Sunday, here is my playlist. I will not be on the air this Sunday due to Super Bowl Sunday (Go Broncos. I will give the final score prediction in my Weekend blog on Saturday) but keep looking at my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) as you just never know when I will be on the air tweeting my songs under the #WaveCave hashtag

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

At the Republican National Committee (RNC) Winter Meeting over the weekend, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus had taken what I think is a major step toward taking the White House back in 2016 by strengthening the nominee (whoever it is, and if we are EVER to take the White House in 2016 we need to follow what Andrew Breitbart had said. More on that below) and empowering the voters during the primary process.

One of the main things he did is shorten the primary process for the goal of having the convention in late June or early July. The following is a list of the rules that were passed to make it happen.

[So] on Friday, we passed new rules to shape the 2016 presidential primary process.

First, the “carve out” states (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada) will hold their contests in February.

Other states can start their contests on or after March 1.

Any contest between March 1st and March 14th must allocate delegates on a proportional basis.

Any contest after March 14th may choose to allocate delegates proportionally or on a winner-take-all basis.

The deadline for selection of alternates and delegates will move from 35 days before the convention to 45 days before the convention.

You can read the whole thing on breitbart.com. Now while he is on the right path toward having the convention in June or July (which I had said should happen when I wrote my 26th Rant and my 27th Rant on these very topics back in January, 2012) he is doing it wrong. Granted, I know I am but a drop in the Republican Party as a voter and as such have no say in the process, but at least I agree that Priebus is leading the party in the right direction with holding the convention in June or July so as to give our nominee a fighting chance during the dog days of summer and also accomplish a little of what I had mentioned in my 26th Rant.

One thing I would see with [having the voting at the end of the month] is that all of the voting and tabulations would be done by May which means that the nominee would have three months to find a running mate and get the grassroots campaign at least started by getting the main headquarters set up before the convention. Then the day after they give their acceptance speech they can get started on their general election campaign.

You can read the whole thing at ricktheranter.blogspot.com. This in a sense also brings the dates of the Republican National Convention back to what it was during the first nomination of Ronald Reagan, when the 1980 convention was held July 14 to 17. It is also important to note that even before then the Republicans had traditionally held their conventions as early as the middle of May and as late as mid July from 1856 (when the Republicans held their first convention and nominated John Charles Fremont) until 1952 when they nominated Dwight David Eisenhower.

However, no matter what happens on our side, we all have to coalesce behind the nominee (whoever it is) after the convention because as I had pointed out in various rants during the 2012 election, the only two people who have a VIABLE chance of getting the electoral votes are the Republican and the Democrat nominees regardless of who is running as a minor (ie 3rd party or other party) candidate. We need to remember the words of Andrew Breitbart at CPAC in 2012 when he said the following (f/t to Biff Spackle of Director Blue for the transcript)

I don't care who our candidate is

You want a unity speech? I'll give you a unity speech. I don't care who our candidate is.I haven't since the beginning of this... ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate!And that's what the Tea Party is.We are there to confront [the radical left] on behalf of our candidate!I will march behind who ever our candidate is. Because if we don't, we lose. There are two paths! There are two paths! One is America, the other is Occupy! One is America, the other is Occupy! And I don't care, and along the way... I've realized over the last three years that the Republican Party and the conservative movement is not what ABC, CBS and NBC put on the screen.They try to portray you in the worst possible light... and when I travel around the United States meeting people in the Tea Party who care -- black, white, gay, straight -- anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you're not in that bunker 'cause you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you. You're on the other side.

Read that part again: “anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you're not in that bunker 'cause you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you. You're on the other side.” That is right. We might be zealous and support our candidate in the primary, but when the convention comes around and our candidate is not nominated, we have to support whoever the nominee for the Republican side is after the convention – even if it means holding our nose at the poling place on election day – because when we get to the fork in the road, we have to decide which branch of the fork (and from what I had seen there are only branches of the fork in the road) to go. As Andrew said, one path is America, and the other is Occupy or – since Occupy has dispersed in the middle of 2012 – Socialism. Choose wisely the path you wish to traverse, because there is no going back.

Priebus is taking the first steps to taking the White House back in 2016 with the moving of the convention to late June or early July, as well as moving the first four primaries to February, but we need to take the steps to help our candidate get across the finish line to get nominated. If we can, that is fine. If not, then we need to get behind the candidate that does ultimately get the nomination.

In case you missed it, here is my playlist from a 7 hour long #WaveCave on Eclipse Radio last Sunday. I am planning on being on the air tomorrow at 3 PM for my usual 4 hours. Not to worry, as my shows are Bieber Free. That is to say, no original Justin Bieber songs.

And that is all the news that is news for today. I might be up at 10 PM tonight to add some tweets during Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Channel. So stay tuned to my Twitter feed (@RickBulow1974) for that as well as for other news throughout the day.

Saturday, January 18, 2014

One of my favorite blogs is entitled The Other McCain (no, not THAT McCain but the OTHER guy named McCain) and one of the articles that caught my eye was by Smitty entitled “32 GOP Presidential Choices? Nuts!” In it there was an email from GOP.com about 32 potential candidates for the presidential nomination. Now Smitty brings up a good point when he said the following:

(a) The next election is in 9 1/2 months, dudes. It’s both more important to focus on the next election, and to understand that how this November goes will inform what happens in 2016 in a major way.

We DO have a very important election in 9.5 months called the midterm elections in which all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 seats in the Senate (a total of 468 members of Congress) are up for grabs. If we focus on that, then we will decide where this country will go for the next two years and then ultimately in 2016. However, just for grinz, Smitty had put the 32 candidates in separate categories. I will posit his categories for all 32 candidates, and then offer my picks in the same categories.

NONE (This is because if I were to vote for other if there were people in this category, then I would in a sense be voting for the Democrat running)

SPECIAL MENTIONS (2)

- Herman Cain (Considering his age and also how 2012 was a train wreck for him, he might stay in radio)- Newt Gingrich (I think he would be good in an advisory position or as Chief of Staff or other insider position for a Republican President)